Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe

Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe

1999, The New York Times, “An Artist Who Didn’t Know She Was One”

New York Times article by Tessa DeCarlo titled An Artist Who Didn't Know She Was One, from the Art/Architecture section, January 3, 1999. The article features Rowe's work Cow Jump Over the Mone. A pull quote reads Nellie Mae Rowe spent decades turning her rural Georgia home into a handmade 'playhouse.' Now the dolls, paintings and collages she made are blurring the boundaries separating fine, folk and outsider art.

Second page of New York Times article by Tessa DeCarlo titled An Artist Who Didn't Know She Was One. Page features a photo of Nellie Mae Rowe in her yard, standing next to several flower arrangement. A pull quote reads, 'I've worked all my days," Nellie Mae Rowe said in the 1970's. 'Now I want to play these other days out.'

DeCarlo, Tessa. “An Artist Who Didn’t Know She Was One.” The New York Times, January 3, 1999, Art/Architecture. Courtesy of the Nellie Mae Rowe Archive, High Museum of Art, Atlanta.